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THE ST7NDAT OKEGOXCAX, . POHTL AND, fAT SI, 191.
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IV. THE HONEYMOON
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Copyright 1914
AND now the honeymoon. And as the Boy and Girl gaze upon
massive medieval cathedrals, priceless Michael Angelo sculptures
and frescoes, and awe-inspiring ruins that . were transcendent
V splendors when the world was young, they see all these mute evidences
' of a stupendous past through the eyes of Dan Cupid, faithful and tireless
courier of all true lovers on honeymoon tour.
Through the Continent they loiter, jivoiding, whenever possible, the
places where they feel they might meet friends. For their great desire is to
be alone in this world of strangers and this strange world to share their
new happiness with no one to keep it selfishly all to themselves. And
as each new day of living jusLfor each other adds to her joy of life, it
seems to the Girl that all the happiness that filled her betrothal days -and '
that, she knows, was great was as nothing compared with that which
now is hers. -: . .
So Venice, beloved of all lovers from dim time, takes on an added
charm that she will recall with a thrill when every one of the golden hairs
that now crown her love-lit face are silvered by the alchemist. Time.
And she is sure that never was Mediterranean noon so full and soothing,
or the Italian skies so soft and ineffably blue, or that anyone ever loved
so much before. And when that wonderful,-starry night they are leaning
on the rail of the Rhine steamer, he with his arm about her, and she asks
him, "Do you suppose anyone ever loved so much before since the world
began and his voice takes on a new-found tenderness as he draws' her
closer, and feryendy whispers,- "No," ah, then -then she knows that
once again she is living one of life's greatest moments.
And what f the joy "of that slyly stolen kiss as they pass out of sight
of "others for a .moment while' rounding the base of a temple column'
reared to a stately goddess of Greece? And ihe impulsive .holding of
hands in broad daylight in Naples busiest street? And the happy
, moments in the privacy of their train compartment while'moving from
capital to capital ? ' ""And especially that time when the pompous German
- guard unexpectedly sticks his mustaches' in at the carriage window, and
the big boy at her side hastily seizes his Baedecker, and. with marvelous
presence of mind, falls to displaying his ignorance of the language and
the Fatherland! .
Wonderful, golden time, blowing the bud of perfect love to' fullest
bloom and fragrance! . '
And, oh, how vey, very sure she is that she never could be happier.
But even while this thought is filling her heart to overflowing, and causing
her eyes to take on added softness whenever she gazes at him. so tender
ly, constandy thoughtful . of her, they turn their faces towards home,
these two to that holy, of holies of married lovers, where she will be
enshrined as queen and experience a joy that passeth' understanding even
. as it transcends that which the honeymoon period has brought to her.
(Copyright, 1914, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.),
" Next week Mrl Fisher will depict the fifth of "The Greatest Moments
in a Girl's Life." Tt is -entitled "The First Evening Alone in Their
" Own Home." . S ' ' ,
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